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Mozilla launches Jetpack; Will add-ons be Firefox's secret sauce?

Mozilla launches Jetpack; Will add-ons be Firefox's secret sauce?Nifty, alsoZero Punctuation, or enunciation.So we get what, MORE buggie addins?That is what people say about all browsers.The more addins the bugs exploits.We have proven that the "many eyes" logic is false.How does the old saying go...We loose money on each one...

Tags: Web browsers, Jetpack, secret sauce, sauce, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-05-21

Google shares more of its secret sauce: Protocol buffers

Google shares more of its secret sauce: Protocol buffersFinally, binary files are back :)After almost 10 years of XML hype we find the "new" thing - binary files :) Good to see them back.CORBA!!!Yeah that was supposed to solve all those problems... right?Not,-MAs happened with the OSI stack vs...

Tags: TCP/IP, Network technology, Protocol Buffers, Google Shares, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

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Software downloads 2009-09-03

How desktop virtualization will end IT client hardware maintenance (and kill off Best Buy's Geek Squad)

In one fell swoop, John Whaley might end IT client hardware maintenance. And he might kill off the Geek Squad, too. Whaley, the chief technical officer of desktop virtualization company MokaFive, says desktop virtualization is becoming more widely adopted in...

Tags: Best Buy Co. Inc., Information Technology, Environment, Server, MokaFive, JW, Management Cost, Desktop Virtualization, Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-08-28

Frustrated developers and scrutiny of other apps: Are things falling apart at Apple's app store?

I'm probably just as tired as all of you over this matter of Apple and the Google Voice app for the iPhone. But I would like to share two related posts that I read this morning and chime in with some reaction to both. The first, which...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., App, NYT, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-25

Layer 7 Technologies Security in the Cloud

Paul Rochester, CEO, and Scott Morrison, VP Engineering and Chief Architect, of Layer 7 Technologies, dropped by virtually to introduce me to their company's technology and the philosophy behind their products. After a while, I was able to understand the approach they were taking and how extensible and flexible it...

Tags: Layer 7 Technologies Inc., XML, Security, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Could Apple really dictate iPhone terms to Verizon Wireless?

The bricks just keep being thrown through AT&T's reputation window. This time, TechCrunch's MG Siegler has an entertaining rant on how Apple needs to dump AT&T and put the iPhone on Verizon Wireless. As noted before, the iPhone may be the worst thing that has ever happened...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Verizon Wireless, MG Siegler, Apple-AT&T Partnership, Smart Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-19

Google ChromeOS: Have people taken leave of their senses?

Reading the commentary from the likes of TechCrunch, Mashable, The Guardian and even our own esteemed Sam Diaz on the pre-launch (you've got another YEAR to wait) you'd think the Google ChromeOS was the closest thing to the second coming of Jesus Christ. Get a grip people. First up MG...

Tags: Google Inc., Operating System, Microsoft Corp., Netbook, Register, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Hardware, Software, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-08

Gatekeepers of open source innovation

Gatekeepers of open source innovationhuh???[i]By making the core of a product open source, then offering the secret sauce as a proprietary addition, companies can bring in the cash needed to create such teams.[/i]That is not freedom as in software!Releasing useless code for free without a key component is not FOSS,...

Tags: Strategy, open-source innovation, GateKeeper, open source

Discussion threads 2009-06-29

Xenocode - Making Windows Applications Web Applications

From time to time, I have the chance to speak with Kenji Obata, CEO and Founder of Xenocode. This time Kenji showed me a demonstration in which several versions of Internet Explorer appeared to be running simultaneously on the same client system. As we all know, new versions of Internet...

Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Xenocode, Microsoft Windows, Web Browsers, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, Web Technology, Apple Mac OS, Operating Systems, Software, Internet, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-01

News to know: Salesforce.com; Microsoft; Apple tablet; Google

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Salesforce.com delivers mixed fiscal year outlook: Earnings up, revenue light Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Pop quiz - Which would you choose (Mac vs. PC)? ...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets

Blog posts 2009-05-22

Mozilla launches Jetpack; Will add-ons be Firefox's secret sauce?

Mozilla has unveiled Jetpack, a project to make Firefox add-ons easier to code and deploy.  The general idea for Jetpack, which is in an early stage, is to develop browser add-ons with common technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Jetpack is Mozilla's attempt to take its...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Add-on, Jetpack, Web Browsers, CSS, Internet, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Why Facebook can't open up like Twitter: Life doesn't operate in 140 characters

No matter what Facebook does it never seems to make everyone happy. The latest hubbub: Facebook opens up its activity streams to third party developers, but doesn't go far enough. Why? Damn privacy.  ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick makes a great argument that Facebook remains fundamentally close due to its...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, ReadWriteWeb, Kirkpatrick, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Sharepoint's DisneyWorld Style Strategy

Dennis Howlett thinks the promise of Enterprise 2.0 is years away and feels Dion Hinchcliffe's ROI value accrual model is more evangelizing hand waving than evidence of any substantial uptake. From my perspective I think we're at a point where many of the...

Tags: Strategy, Environment, Microsoft SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett, Business World, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-14

WSJ: Jobs heading up Apple netbook project

WSJ: Jobs heading up Apple netbook projectIt usually takes Apple about 5 years to copy the restMP3 player? Check.Smartphone? Check.Time Machine? Check.Netbook? Right on target.Cupertino's photocopiers are working full time!! :)I INVENTED PSEUDOTRANSPERANCYRobert Mehlschau;I am NOT interested in the arguments above, Macs are OBVIOUSLY BETTER AND HIGHER QUALITY THEN WINDOWS,...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Now Let, ARM Processors, netbook, Apple Inc., Apple Netbook, ARM, job, Apple iPhone

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

Opening the kimono on Salesforce.com's green crystals

Salesforce.com's chief technology guru Parker Harris, speaking at Cloudforce London this week, mapped out the secret sauce that makes the company's multi-tenancy so special. Why suddenly expose details of something it has always previously kept schtum about? by Phil Wainewright

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright

Blog posts 2009-04-09

The war for mobile developers is on: Do you have to pick sides?

Microsoft has offered up more details on its mobile developer strategy, matched Apple's App Store revenue split and offered a more transparent process for app approval. With the details of Microsoft's plans revealed developers are hit with a conundrum: What mobile platform do you bet on? After all, Apple, Microsoft,...

Tags: Developer, Research In Motion Ltd., Google Android, Mobile, Palm Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Enterprise App Market, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-11

Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32?

Who should Software Freedom sue on FAT32?What did MS do wrong?They are not bound by the GPL. They are free to license their technology to anyone they want, under terms agreeable to both. (I assume there might be some Federal restrictions there, but I don't think we crossed that...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, MS Just, FAT32, Microsoft Corp., Software Freedom Sue, GPL, MSFT, software

Discussion threads 2009-03-07

Cydia and Apple: Lawsuits will be a sideshow

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a big article about a new renegade competitor that is challenging Apple’s App Store and in the process whetting the appetites of IP lawyers. With all due respect to the legal eagles involved, technology and the global supply chain should make this debate moot.  ...

Tags: Supply Chain, Lawsuit, Apple Inc., Cydia, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Enterprise Software, Software, Kevin O'Marah

Blog posts 2009-03-06

VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked open

VMWare's filesystem clustering cracked openwhat customers wantCustomers should want open standards and non-proprietary flexibility. They should always have the option of switching vendors with as little stress as possible. Why would any company want to lock itself in? It takes away any incentive for the vendors to...

Tags: clustering, VMware Inc., filesystem clustering, VMFS, file system

Discussion threads 2009-03-03